atom feed10 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersquestionable feature in FreeBSD pmake
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Dan StrickOct 28, 2004 3:22 am 
Peter PentchevOct 28, 2004 3:53 am 
Peter PentchevOct 28, 2004 3:56 am 
M. Warner LoshOct 28, 2004 8:19 am 
Dan StrickOct 28, 2004 12:51 pm 
M. Warner LoshOct 28, 2004 8:22 pm 
Sean FarleyOct 28, 2004 9:12 pm 
Harti BrandtOct 28, 2004 11:50 pm 
Harti BrandtOct 29, 2004 12:01 am 
Dan StrickOct 29, 2004 6:39 pm 
Subject:questionable feature in FreeBSD pmake
From:M. Warner Losh (im@bsdimp.com)
Date:Oct 28, 2004 8:19:33 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers

In message: <200410281023.i9SAN27L001781@mist.nodomain> Dan Strick <str@covad.net> writes: : Does anyone know where this feature came from? The .OBJDIR variable was : recognized by the pmake distributed with 4.4 BSD, but the man page for : that version of make does not mention the gratuitous magic rules for : changing the make working directory. The older make program found in : 4.3 BSD does not seem to use the .OBJDIR variable at all. : : This feature is not mentioned in the pmake tutorial found in : /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make. Is it a FreeBSD-ism?

Both FreeBSD and NetBSD have this feature. Early in the FreeBSD life cycle, it was imported from NetBSD shortly after the 2.0 tree was imported from 4.4-lite.

Warner